Blueprint For Jobs For Youth In Naxal Hit Districts

The Centre has drawn up a blueprint to provide jobs to three lakh youth in the 60 naxal affected districts in the country. 

Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said that the government will start a programme for placement linked jobs for unemployed youth in these districts over the next five years. 

They will be trained and provided jobs. The Minister said the Centre has also decided to start major developmental initiatives in these districts in a bid to tackle the Naxal menace. 

These initiatives include the Indira Awas Yojana housing for people whose homes have been destroyed and construction of concrete roads.

The Rural Development Ministry has also planned a Public Private Partnership initiative for value addition in non-timber forest produce in six districts of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh as a pilot project.